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Is it just me or is the question asking something that has little to do with the details? Unless the author of the article is also in Playboy or taking medical advice from someone who is, I don’t see how she’s displaying “exactly the kind of behavior they are campaigning against.”

Her son was misdiagnosed by a doctor. How does that make her an idiot?
The parent choosing not to vaccinate their child is the dumbass, not Jenny McCarthy.
People need to use their fucking brains and quit being sheep.
I’m a fan of hers, but I’m certainly not going to follow her advice when it comes to my child.

I believe it has to do with having good judgement, or not. I don’t think posing nude in Playboy magazine (no matter what other credentials you may have, Ph.D or whatever) is using good judgement. It may be perfectly legal, but it makes her appear as a sex object, rather than a human being.

Jenny McCarthy has gone on and on and on for years trying to convince people not to vaccinate their children because she, as a celebrity Playboy model actress (not a doctor or scientist) went on the interwebs and found proof that vaccinations cause autism.

@Dutchess_III Yes, there was a Jelly on here about 3 weeks ago that asked if vaccinations caused autism. She already has a child, but yet in 2013, when that idea has been disproved, she still didn’t know. There’s plenty of people who still don’t know.

@Dutchess_III Yeah, I know. I had one friend acquaintance who I had to block on Facebook because she lived for conspiracy theories. I think it made her feel superior to have knowledge that the rest of us didn’t have. She smokes a lot of dope too, not sure if that fueled her desire for CT’s or the other way around.

My point is, guys, if she’d been in any other “profession” when she was younger, would it have even been brought up in the form of “This would be why you shouldn’t receive your medical advice from [insert old profession]?” As it stands, isn’t the comment nothing more than a form of slut shaming? I mean, does anybody shame or discredit Arnold Swartzener based on the fact that he was once a body builder and showed his whole body off (almost) for the whole world to see?

In the non-cyber world, as with here, double-minded hypocrisy runs rampant. The only reason for bringing up her Playboy past was shock value, with a did against her because supposedly taking off your clothes in front of a camera for big bucks, is somehow supposedly different than if she were in an underground vid boinking a dog, on the big scene shooting a sex scene, or never have been on camera just boinking a different guy from the bar each week. When it comes to sex, here in the US we try as a whole society, not everyone buys into that crap, that popular sex no matter how debase is OK, and unpopular sex, no matter how expected, or natural is seen as weird, kinky, nasty or worse. Doing a sex scene on the big screen, OK, doing sex with no holds barred on the Internet, not OK for example. Mentioning it served no value to the story they were trying to say.